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After Effects: Practice for old film effects
This post is written using After Effects 2021. I wanted to show an animation like old tape films, and made the next video. In this video, I noted how I did it. In fact, I noticed there are some plugins like motionarray, but I hadn't known before I made it. So, we might be able to do the same thing by easier way with them.
June 16, 2021
After Effects: Practice for visualizing audio file
This post is written using After Effects 2021. I made a simple video to use and compare effects described in this post. Audio spectrum/waveform effects In AE, there are two effects Audio Spectrum and Audio Waveform to visualize an audio file. I learned how to use an audio wavespectrum from next video. These are steps for how to use it.
June 15, 2021
Practice for a chat animation in Adobe After Effects
This post is written using After Effects 2021. I also added the links to videos where I learned how to do, so if you are unfamiliar with UIs on AEs, those videos are helpful for how to use. Chat animationI made a chat animation, and from that knowledge, I made the next video. In this post, I'll describe how I made this video, especially how to make a speech bubble in details.
June 14, 2021
After Effects: Practice for raining animation
This is a note when I tried to make a rain scene. I'm not very familiar with Adobe After Effects, so some steps can be inefficient or incorrect, so please keep in mind about there might be better way when you read this post. The example of the animation I made on this post is next one. The background of this animation is from this page.
June 9, 2021
Practice to the sidetail hair of Anemachi
This is the note for my practice to an illustration as a beginner. Today's illustrationThe next left illustration is the one before I practiced and right one is after I did to draw Anemachi, who is a sister of VTuber Suisei Hoshimachi. Before After In this time, I practiced how to draw a sidetail hair. I couldn't find very good books or videos for drawing it unfortunatelly, so I just reviewed my illustration, considered how to improve, and practiced.
May 11, 2021
Practice to color shades and shadows of hairs and lights of a character
This is the note for my practice to an illustration as a beginner. Today's illustrationThe next left illustration is the one before I practiced and right onw is after I did. Before After In this time, I practiced and learned these things Colors for shades and shadows of hairs Even if the color of shade and shadow is different from the basic hair color, it doesn't screw up the illustration. The different color gives a different impression as well as another information of a character. Colors depend on each character, and it's OK to use the different color for shade and shadows even though different characters have the identical hair color. Colors for lights This also affects how you wanna show your illustration, especially what the surrounding area of the character is. Besides the above points, I modified a little bit about shade and shadow colors to make them weaker. To practice, I tried these steps to improve this original illustration:
May 8, 2021
Practice drawing a head and face from a profile view
This is the note for my practice to an illustration by a beginner. Today's illustrationThe above illustration is the one before I practiced and below one is after I practiced. I haven't finished coloring most of shades and shadows because I would update the original illustration after this practice. Before After In this time, I changed face and head to make them look a character more female, because originally it doesn't look. These are summaries for my learnings:
April 9, 2021
Practice: Learn how to color an illustration on Clip Studio Paint
This is the 3rd note for an illustration by a beginner. Today's illustrationNext left illustration is the one before I learned and right one is after I learned. I haven't finished coloring shades and shadows because I would update the original illustration after this practice. This time, it's gonna be easier to see the difference of 2 illustrations when you turn off a dark mode. Before After In this time, I learned how to color an illustration. These are summaries for what I changed on Clip Studio Paint.
April 5, 2021
Practice illustrations
This is the 2nd drawing practice note by a beginner for an illustration. Today's illustrationLeft one of next illustrations is one before I practiced and right side is one after I practiced. I haven't finished painting colors, like adding shades or shadows, to them in order to check and practice what can be significantly better in terms of lines drawings at first. Before After It might be hard to notice what was changed, but I practiced hands and fingers because it looked weird on the left illustration.
March 26, 2021
Practice illustrations
This is a note when I, a very beginnner of an illustration, practiced drawing an illustration. I left them here so I can refer to this in the future. Today's illustrationThese illustrations are those I drew very seriously, but left one is before practice and right one is after practice. Before After Here is the links to today's illustration on my SNS accounts. Link to Pixiv I tried these steps to improve this original illustration.
March 21, 2021